In the spacious, clean, brightly lit floor, there were only five ice sculptures. After an entire night, they remained lifelike, showing no signs of melting.
This supernatural ability, beyond the scope of technological understanding, needed no special explanation. Those who were well-informed had long connected it to the infamous mutant mercenary group of the dark world—the Blood Fang Group.
As a result, the people on the restaurant's second floor had nearly all fled in an instant.
Ice Serpent's footsteps fell one after another on the stairs.
The servers and the Boss on the first floor all hid to the side in terror.
An S-rank mercenary group was not someone they could afford to offend.
"How much?" Ice Serpent asked expressionlessly.
"No, no, everything is free during our restaurant's anniversary celebration these two days!!"
Though he was a burly man nearly six feet three inches tall, his eyes were filled with fawning flattery.
Ice Serpent gave him an indifferent glance. "Thanks."
With elegant steps, the seventh-rank mutant Ice Serpent slowly walked out of the restaurant.
Behind him, everyone in the restaurant let out a breath of relief.
"Finally gone... damn, I felt like I was about to die."
"Boss, what about those people upstairs?"
"Drag them out and bury them."
The burly man who had been fawning moments ago instantly turned vicious.
"Then scrub the second floor from top to bottom and get ready to reopen!"
The morning sunlight in Oasis City was gentle rather than scorching, warming people's faces.
At the entrance to the dense forest in B District, several patrolling guards were yawning in boredom.
Their positions in the Guard Regiment had not been assigned by the Federation government. They were an exclusive armed force equipped by the joint committee established by several super Mercenary Groups.
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